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I A. NOBLE. CARRIAGE 0R MOUNTING FOR QUICK FIRING GUNS.

Patented Oct. 22, 1889.

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CARRIAGE 0R MOUNTING FOR QUIOKYFIRING GUNS. No. 413,241. Patented Oct. 22,1889.

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ANDRE NOBLE, OF NEYV'OASTLE-UPON-TYNE, EN GLAND, ASSIGNOR TO W. G. ARMSTRONG, MITCHELL & 00., (LIMITEDQ OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE OR MOUNTING FOR QUICK-FIRING GUNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,241, dated October 22, 1889. Application filed April 11, 1887. Serial No. 234,390. (No model.) Patented in Englandoctoher 23, 1885, No. 12,73Q.

To all whom it may concern: by a pair of coiled springs arranged on either Be it known that 1, ANDREW NOBLE, manuside in rear of these trunnion blocks or bearfacturing engineer, and late captain in the ings and between them and abutments upon Royal Artillery, of J esmonddene House, Newthe gun-slide. From the trunnion blocks or castle-upon-Tyne, England, a subject of the bearings on either side a piston-rod projects Queen of Great Britain, have invented cerforward, and it carries a piston which works tain new and useful Improvements in Carin a cylinder provided to receive it in the fore riages or Mountings for Quick-Firing Guns, part of the gun-slide. The two cylinders are (for which I have received Letters Patent in connected by a passage passing transversely 1 o Great Britain, No. 12,730, dated October 23, across the gun-slide beneath the gun to equal- 1885,) of which the following is a specification. ize the pressure in the two cylinders. There The invention relates to carriages or mountare suitable ports or passages by which, when ings for guns to be aimed by the aid of a le the recoil takes place, the liquid in the cylinver which projects to the rear and is furder passes from one side of the piston to the r 5 nished with a shoulder-rest and hand-grip by other, and when the recoil is spent the springs which the gunner directs the piece and the bring the gun forward again to the firing posame man fires the gun when the aim has sition. Thegun-slide terminates in front in been obtained by. pulling a trigger by the a face, upon which a shield of armor-plate is aid of a cord or otherwise. On a base or suitbolted for the protection of the gunners. 'The 20 able support there is fixed a pivot-piece contrunnions of the gun-slide are at the center sisting of a hollow cylindrical casting closed of gravity of. the gun and shield, so that the at the top and bolted to the base by a flange gunner by the aid of the shoulder-rest is able around it at its lower end. This pivot-piece to move the whole,including the.sl1ield,when receivesuponitanothercasting provided with itlilllllg. A pinching-screw is provided to 25 two arms, on which are bearings receiving the lock the gun-slide to its support when detrunnions of a slide-frame in which the gun sired. is able to move longitudinally the distance In order that my said invention may be necessary for the recoil. The pivot-piece and most fully understood and readily carried into the casting which it. supports are provided etfect,1 will proceed to describe the drawings 0 with flanges, and these are held together by hereunto annexed. a clip-ring made in two parts and bolted to- In the drawings, Figure l isaside elevation gether at parts diametrically opposite. In showing a gun carriage or mounting conthe top of the pivot-piece there is a central structed in accordance with my invention, recess cylindrical in form, and this receives a with buffer-cylinders and recoil-springs on 5 corresponding boss or pivot projecting from the slide-frame on each side of the gun. A the under side of the upper casting. A screwquick-firing gun is shown in place upon the plug passes down through the boss and abuts carriage. Fig. 2 is a plan of this carriage or upon the bottom of the cavity in the pivotmounting. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the gun piece. lVhen this plug is suitably set, the and carriage as seen from the rear. Fig. tis

40 upper casting can turn freely 011 the lower a transverse section taken through the trun- 9o casting or pivot-piece, moving truly and withnions of the slide-frame and of the gun. Fig. out shake. The gun can thus be trained in 5 is a section on the line 1 1 in Fig. 2. any desired direction, and, if desired, the up- A A is the upper part of the pivot-piece, per casting can then be locked to the pivotand B is the casting which the pivoted piece 5 piece by means of a pinching-screw, which receives upon it. It has arms BB, on which 5 forces a block against the cylindrical side of are bearings receiving the trunnions C C of the pivot-piece. The gun itself is provided the slide frame O. with trunnions, and these are received into D is the gun. It has projections or trunbearings which can move upon the trunnionnions upon it, which are received into bear- 50 frame or gun-slide. The recoil is controlled ing-blocks E E, and these are able to travel be set down into a recess in the part A, and

along guide-surfaces C C provided for them I on the slide-frame C.

F is a clip-ring which holds together the parts A and B, but in such manner thatB can turn freely upon A.

G is a screw-plug in the part B, which can this screw-plug can be adjusted so that while the movement of B upon A takes place with sufficient freedom it does so without shake.

II is a pinching-screw for locking the part B fast upon A to maintain the gun in position when laid upon an object for as long may be desired.

In rear of the blocks E E aspring-box C is provided. It contains coiled springs I, which are compressed when the gun recoils. The springs have an abutment upon the rear end of the spring-box, which in effect forms a part of the slide-frame C.- In connection with the same frame also, and at its fore end, hydraulic buffer-cylinders C are formed, one on either side. These contain pistons K, which are attached by their rods to the blocks E.

C is a passage connecting the two buifercylinders to equalize the pressure in them.

L is a shoulder piece or stock attached to i the slide-frame C. By the aid of it the gun is directed.

M is a shield fixed upon the slide-frame C and movable with it.

N is a pinching-screw for locking together the parts 13 and G when required to prevent change taking place in the elevation of the gun.

The breech-loading arrangement of the gun and the firing mechanism maybe of any suitable construction. The gun represented by the drawings is of a well-known type.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is- In a carriage or mounting fora quick-firing gun, a pivoted support carrying by trunnions a frame provided with guide-surfaces along which blocks attached to the gun slide, and provided, also, with springs in rear of the blocks, and pistons working hydraulic buttercylinders in front of them, substantially as described.

A. NOBLE.

\Yitnesses:

WM. JOHN GREY, T. PURVIS. 

